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1927 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes parliamentary election
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Aca Stanojević
Ljubomir Davidović
Stjepan Radić
Party
NRS
DS
HSS
Last election
123 seats, 28.8%
36 seats, 11.8%
67 seats, 22.2%
Seats won
112
59
61
Seat change
9
23
6
Popular vote
742,111
381,784
367,570
Percentage
31.9%
16.4%
15.8%
Swing
3.1%
4.6%
6.4%
Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 11 September 1927.[ 1] The People's Radical Party remained the largest faction in Parliament , winning 112 of the 315 seats.[ 1] As it turned out, they were the last relatively free elections ever held in the 1918-1992 incarnation of Yugoslavia.
Results
Party
Votes
%
Seats
+/–
People's Radical Party
742,111
31.9
112
+1
Democratic Party
381,784
16.4
59
+23
Croatian Peasant Party
367,570
15.8
61
–6
Independent Democratic Party
199,040
8.6
22
+14
Agrarian Party
136,076
5.9
9
+5
Slovene People's Party
106,247
4.1
20
0
Democratic Party –Yugoslav Muslim Organization
73,703
3.2
11
New
Yugoslav Muslim Organization
58,623
2.5
9
–6
German Party
49,849
2.2
6
+1
Croatian Bloc
45,218
2.0
2
New
Republican Union of Workers and Peasants[ 2]
43,114
1.9
0
0
Croatian Popular Party
31,746
1.3
1
+1
Socialist Party of Yugoslavia
24,035
1.1
1
+1
Independent Agrarian Party
9,900
0.5
1
0
Republican Party
6,122
0.3
0
0
Montenegrin Federalist Party
5,153
0.2
1
–2
Romanian Party
4,654
0.2
0
New
Serbian Party
2,142
0.1
0
0
Bunjevac-Šokac Party
1,618
0.1
0
0
Croatian Community
1,103
0.1
0
New
Others
34,862
1.6
0
–
Total
2,324,676
100
315
0
Registered voters/turnout
3,375,593
69.0
–
–
Source: Nohlen et al.
Elected representatives
Ethnic breakdown
The members of parliament had the following ethnic makeup:
Ethnic breakdown of parliament[ 6]
Party
Serbs
Croats
Slovenes
Bunjevci
Undeclared
Germans
Hungarians
Albanians
Turks
Total
People's Radical Party
102
2
-
2
-
-
2
3
1
112
Croatian Peasant Party
2
59
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
63
Democratic Party
56
2
-
-
-
-
1
1
1
61
Independent Democratic Party
13
5
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
22
Yugoslav People's Party
-
1
20
-
-
-
-
-
-
21
Agrarian Union
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9
Yugoslav Muslim Organization
1
11
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
18
German Party
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
6
Small groups
-
2
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
3
Total
183
82
27
2
6
6
3
4
2
313
References
^ a b Dieter Nohlen, Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Klaus Landfried (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente und andere Staatsorgane , Walter de Gruyter, p. 784
^ “Hronologija radničkog pokreta i SKJ 1919-1979”, “Narodna knjiga” и “Institut za savremenu istoriju”, Beograd, 1980, T. 1, p. 162.
^ Croatian Populist Party
^ Leček, Suzana; Brodski odvjetnik Filip Markotić – ‘desni’ haesesovac? .
^ a b Ante Pavelić
^ John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country . Cambridge University Press, 2000. (p. 159)
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